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EPHRAIM B. TALBOTT, OF KNOXVILIIE, TENNESSEE.

Letters Patent No. 89,518, lated April 27, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT 1Nv SAW-MILL.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the sama.

O-Qi-b* To all 'whom 't'nmy concern neetion with said clamps and screw for adjusting the Be itknown that I, Erinnern B. Tnnno'rr, of Knoxville, in the county of Knox, and State of Tennessee, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in the Gearing of a Saw, that it may be shifted up or down; and I do hereby declare that the following is` a full, clear, and exact description ofthe construction and operation ofthe same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part' of this specification, and to the letters and iigurcs of' reference "marked thereon.

The nature of my invention consists in construct-ing a mill with a circular saw, for lumberi11g-purposes, by which a small motor may be madeto serve all the purposes of a large saw. and large motor, except that the work will he performed less-rapidly.

This resul-t is accomplished by adjusting the saw in suchmanner that it may be raised or lowered at the will. of the operator, and passed twice or more through the log on the same line. i

Letter A, of the drawings, represents the saw; and

Letter B, the sawmandrel.

' The letters C are albbrs for the mandrel-shaft, connectedwith and adjusted to the standards E, andthe racks F, in the manner shown.

These a-rbors are arranged to slide up and down on the standards E, by means of said rack F, and the pinions working therein, marked G.

These pinions are operated and tbe saw and mandrel-shaft moved, either up or down, by the windlass H, to which said pinions are attached.

.The letter I represents two clamps, set one on each side of the wiudlass-shaft, and through which is passed a screw, K, adjusted as shown, the oilce of which said screw and clamps is to enable the operator to x and .hold the mamlrel-shaft and saw in any position, as to altitude, he may desire.

The set-screws c, adj usted in the blocks that slide up and down on'the standards E, are also used in conheight of the saw, and holding it firmly in place.

lhe letter L is the driving-shaft, arranged in the manner shown.

The frame m passes upward i'romVt-he driving-shaft to a convenient height, and in the top thereof I adjust the short shaft O.

Another frame, marked P, pivoted on shaft G, ex tends from said shaft to the. mandrel of the same, around which it is clasped by both arms.

These last-named frames, in conjunction with said shafts, and the pulleys and belts attached thereto, as represented,l aiord means by which the motive-power will always act upon the same shaft with the same force, without regard to the angle at which the same shaft may be adjusted with the driving-shaft.

These devices combined, enablethe operator to pass the saw through the log as many times as he chooses on the selfsame longitudinal line, and to raise and lower the saw at will.

This arrangement is found extremely useful when .only a small motivepower can be obtained, and the logs to be sawed are large. It isalso useful in cut ting crooked logs, and generally in al1 lumbemnanufacture, where, for any rca-son, one movement of the saw through the log will not ont o` the board both at top and bottom. v

What I claim as my invention, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The arrangement, herein described, ofthe mandrel l B, standards E, racks F, vpinion G, clamp I, shaft L, and arms P and m, when all the parts are constructed and operate as speciiied.

In testimony that I claim the above, I have here` unto subscribed my name, in the presence of two witnesses.

Witnesses: EPHRAIM B. TALBOTT.

E. W. Anlass, W. A. HENDERSON. 

